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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
1
Rev J E Corry will preach at First Presbyterian Sunday morning on A Five-fold Exhortation for our Modern Crisis from First Corinthians 16 18 to 14. The sermon aims to guide the congregation through present secular challenges with scripture.
Sunday services occur September 22 at 11 am and 8 pm with morning sermon by Rev. F A De Maris and community service singing. Attend Cranbury school election Monday evening and vote. Stitch and Chatter Club meets Thursday September 26 at 3 pm. Celia Everett and Andrew Ely announce their marriage in Dayton New Jersey on September 18.
Mr and Mrs W R Silvers entertained about ten children for Jack Silvers fifth birthday. The article notes the public school opening with enrollments by year and ongoing junior Red Cross and woodworking sewing and knitting efforts. Camp Dix troops receive a gift as detailed in a letter from Rev C B Roach. The piece includes a W C T U national letter urging Senate action on wartime prohibition.
Rev. Burslem of Plainsboro insults Board of Education members and Cranbury citizens during debate on a new Plainsboro schoolhouse. He accuses them of unpatriotic motives as cost and wartime restrictions slow building. Voters likely to protest at Monday night election. Also notes John Dey promoted to Prudential supervisor in Portland after years with the firm.
Miss Emily Jeffers returned to Wyoming Seminary in Kingston. The Ladies Aid held an all day meeting at Mrs. Gertrude Barnard’s home. Several local residents, including Mary W. Grove and Miss Marguerite Cubberley, visited relatives or spent vacations nearby. Roland H. Skillman sent a card from overseas. H. W. Jeffers returned from a Washington trip.
A Saturday evening surprise gathering, about fifty friends filled Miss Grace Norton’s home on North Main Street, Hights town, for music games dancing and late hour refreshments. Guests included Julia Grover Virginia Perrine Margaret Camberlin Margaret Stults and many others.
Dr F A DeMaris former Cranbury M E Church pastor visits Cranbury for the seventy first birth anniversary services and speaks at a Brotherhood Meeting. A new Hikers Club for men aged 18 to 46 forms in Hightstown with about twenty five merchants, marshals appointed, and a Monday hike planned from the borough hall.
Mr and Mrs William Grover of New York City previously of this town have returned after eight months roaming southern California and the west. They traveled from Kansas City along the Santa Fe Trail through Arizona New Mexico and the Mojave Desert in a 1918 Cadillac and returned in a Ford after 54 weeks. They camped out most of the way lived in the open and crossed the Continental Divide at over 11000 feet. They gathered wood from Petrified Forests Nevada copper trips Ely Nevada, meet coyotes Kansas cyclones and a remark on the reliability of the Flint Fliver.
The Cranbury Township Board of Education weighs a $12,000 bond issue for a Plainsboro road and cites New York City and federal officials who say no new school buildings should be built during wartime. Mayor Hylan cites war needs and Baruch highlights the link between bricks and war efforts. Henry Ford recalls Garfield polling behavior in 1884 satire.
A rallying wartime plea urges brother citizens to purchase another bond to support soldiers overseas. The message emphasizes ongoing sacrifice, urging immediate action and collective duty to sustain the national effort.
Have a Victrola for indoor evenings this winter. It will soon be too chilly to sit outdoors so a Victrola is a practical home necessity. We offer a plan to own one by paying a small weekly amount. Visit us to discuss and own that Victrola.
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